Word: gentleman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cities. They are such a part of the Vegas mainstream that high-end strip joints often have tables not only of couples but also groups of women. Japanese tour buses stop midday at the Palomino Club so the riders can check off a requisite Vegas experience. The Spearmint Rhino Gentleman's Club, which has a clothing boutique where men can buy outfits for their favorite performers, employs a host, Rico Connor, who liaisons with casino hosts to help them entertain their high rollers. Strip clubs are so institutionalized that an FBI sting to find Mafia connections instead discovered that...
FREE SAMPLE "At the inquest, a cabman told the coroner that he had seen a gentleman racing, hatless, across Battersea Bridge, from which, about half-way over, he had vaulted into the river. The tide was running strongly, and by the time the witness had reached the edge of the embankment, there was nothing to be seen...
...when the district attorney looked at us as he uttered the words “ladies and gentleman of the jury,” my grin was gone. This wasn’t “Law and Order.” In the next days, we listened to Ariane, police officers, her mother and sister, several other minor witnesses and, finally, her ex-boyfriend, the defendant. Saul told us that he had never hit his girlfriend (except for the time that there were witnesses) and that her testimony was made up because she had caught him sleeping with another...
...some of them too. There isn't much about today's America that its visionary third President wouldn't find troubling, in need of improvement or just plain horrifying. The peaceful republic that Jefferson wished for and did what he could to usher into being--a collection of independent gentleman farmers, moderately prosperous and highly educated, living under a thrifty, modest government that was legally bound not to meddle in their affairs, be they commercial, domestic or religious, and which staunchly resisted foreign "entanglements"--seems now like a large-scale version of Monticello, the grand but quixotic hilltop sanctuary that...
Like the other revolutionaries, Jefferson was eager to prove himself by the latest, most enlightened values. His father Peter Jefferson was a wealthy Virginia planter and surveyor. But his father was not a refined and liberally educated gentleman. He did not read Latin, he did not know French, he did not play the violin, and as far as we know, he never once questioned the idea of a religious establishment or the owning of slaves. Jefferson aimed to be very different from his father. No founder worked harder at being civilized. Even by 1782, as an admiring French visitor observed...